Want to join Big Singapore Talks for fun and give out your words? If you have something to tell the loads about, related to happenings in Singapore or just some blurbs related to others, you may choose to own your personal blog with our free hosting or writes as a co-author of this blog.
You may post self-written articles, YouTube videos, Flickr.com photos and other medias etc. via your personal writing panel, powered by Wordpress platform.
Just follow the 4 simple steps and links below to register your blog now:
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1. Register with your desired username and email address.
2. Check your email for your randomly generated password.
3. Login with your username and password. You may now change your password and other personal details within the “Your Profile” tab on the left navigation panel of your dashboard.
4. Write your post now by clicking “Add New” under the “Posts” tab on the left navigation panel or “New Post” button on the top right hand of your dashboard and by choosing “Visual” or “HTML” tab within your own writing panel! Smooth and cool!
If you are not claiming your personal blog, you may write as an author in this one too! You can always register or manage your author account by clicking on the “User Login” or “Admin Panel” tab on the panel at the right hand side of this blog. Alternatively, you can register or login with the following URLs:
So why are you writing here instead of other sites or even your own blogs? You asked. Simple, this blog adopts the most powerful blogging software, WordPress with great Plugins and themes. Even impose great Search Engine Optimization to let your blogs and posts highly searchable by tons of readers out there! Also with other enhanced features that other site didn’t give you! I can say, you will have a better control and features of your blog in this site. You shouldn’t have enough for that, besides, it is totally free of charge.
We have added functions for money-earning opportunities to this blog for co-authors to earn as they write. More going to the self-owned blogs soon. Don’t wait, you can earn straight away with your posts once they are published in this blog as an co-author now!
You can even move or import your previously written blog posts with other platforms like “Blogger” with a few clicks! Check out the “Import” function on the Tools menu.
In order to let co-authors in this blog submit their posts fast and easy, now authors can write posts in an email and send it to submit@bigsingapore.com Remember to include your author name or username under that email and our editors will publish your post under it after review. Haven’t got your co-author account? Register here as an co-author of this blog.
As this blog is using Wordpress platform, most of the functions, FAQ, features can be found on Working with Wordpress if you are interested. Some of the functions you can use within your writing panel are elaborated below to help you get started as soon.
Basic Functions On The Left Navigation Panel
• “Dashboard” Tab – Go to your dashboard.
• “Post” Tab – Write, and manage your posts.
• “Media” Tab – Pre-upload your necessary media files for writing your posts.
• “Comments” Tab – Read comments that have gotten. (Only admin can manage the comments)
• “Profile” Tab – Manage your profile.
• “Tools” Tab – Manage any tools you might have being using.
• “Import” Tab – Import your blog(s) from other platform, for example Blogger blog
Some Functions Within Your Writing Panel
• “Add New Post” Panel – The place for you to write your words, pasting your videos, adding your pictures and so on.
• “Upload/Insert” Menu – You can add/upload images, videos, audios and other medias to your post.
• “Visual” Tab – Click once on it, you will have the “WYSIWYG” writing panel with full functions on. Click on the “Show/Hide Kitchen Sink” button to show/hide additional functions. Using Visual tab by default.
• “HTML” Tab – Click once on it, you will have HTML code writing panel, in case you need HTML writing or correction.
• “Save Draft” Button – Click to save your post for the time being as draft.
• “Tags” Bar – Input your general keyword tags related to your post, separated by commas. In that way, you posts will come to a relevant group, easier to search for specific topics. You may also choose from the most popular tags.
• “Suggest Tags” Bar – Suggest tags from local tags, Yahoo or Tag The Net to your posts.
• ” Click Tags” Bar – Click to display local tags for adding to your posts.
• “Sociable” Bar – Tick to disable the social bookmarking option on your published posts. (Not recommended)
• “Categories” Boxes – Tick one or more of the categories relevant to your post.
Some of the Advanced Options
• “Excerpt” Panel – For you to write the description of your post in shorter words when your post contains only videos or images and other non-wording medias. Your descriptive words will let Search Engines and readers understand your post better.
• “Trackbacks” Bar – Insert the URLs of other blog systems that you wish to notify about your words/posts and when you have no direct Link to them within your written post.
• “Custom Fields” – Write or select a key and value to add custom field within the post. In this blog, basically it only use “homethumb” key manually, with the filename of one of your images without the extension (.jpg) to generate your post’s thumbnail to the homepage.
Ok, I hear you telling me you are ready and want to get started immediately. Wait a minute! You need to read those boring stuffs now – There are some terms, posting rules and technical advisory/tips, features announcements, and even technical issues to devour. Upon joining, you agreed to bind with our terms and conditions, and write posts with them side by side. Those rules, features and tips are stipulated to make this site a better, interesting, and non-spammy blog! Please don’t neglect them.
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